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Pentagon Orders Innovega's Augmented Reality Contact Lenses (April 14, 2012): BBC News reports that the Pentagon has ordered Innovega's iOptik augmented reality technology, which involves contact lenses paired with glasses containing tiny flat-panel displays.

World's First 3D Chocolate Printer Goes on Sale (April 10, 2012): The world's first 3D chocolate printers are going on sale.

Pigs Interact With Large Touchscreen in Pig Chase iPad Game (April 7, 2012): Scientists have created an iPad game that pigs and humans can play together.

Terrafugia's Flying Car Debuts at the New York International Auto Show (April 6, 2012): There are two flying cars at this year's New York International Auto Show.

Google Shares Video Showing How Its Google Glasses Will Work (April 4, 2012): Google has released the first video about its rumored Google glasses.

Lego Man Used to Prove Existence of Rogue Waves (April 4, 2012): Scientists have used a Lego pirate floating in a fish tank to demonstrate how rogue waves can come from nowhere in apparently calm seas and engulf ships.

Blind Man Test Drives Google's Self-Driving Car (April 3, 2012): Google's self-driving car recently took Steve Mahan, a blind man, for a ride.

Japanese Researchers Create Tongue Interface Using Kinect (April 3, 2012): Researchers at Japan's The University of Electro-Communications have created a tongue interface using Kinect.

Japanese Researchers Create Interactive Kissable Poster (April 3, 2012): Japanese researchers at Keio University have created a creepy kissable, interactive poster.

PAL-V, a Flying Car/Gyrocopter, Takes First Test Flight (April 2, 2012): The PAL-V, a 3-wheeled vehicle that can both drive on the ground like a car and fly in the air like a gyrocopter has taken its maiden flight.

IBM to Build Exascale Computer System for Square Kilometer Array (April 2, 2012): ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy and IBM have announced plans to build an exascale computer system for the international Square Kilometre Array (SKA).

Conductive Silver Ink Lets You Draw Working Circuits On Paper (April 2, 2012): Professor Jennifer Lewis, a materials scientist at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, led a team of researchers in the development of a silver-based ink that can conduct electricity.

MIT Researchers Envision Smart Sand that Could Produce Nearly Any Object on Demand (April 2, 2012): MIT researchers envision smart sand, which could enable anyone with strict weight or size constraints to produce almost any object on demand.

University of South Florida's Solar Powered Robot Tweets Ocean Conditions (April 2, 2012): University of South Florida has solar-powered robots, Solar-powered Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (SAUVs), that can analyze ocean conditions and tweet them.

3D Nano Figure of Obese Human Created Using Ultra Fast New 3D Printing Technology (April 1, 2012): This overweight human figure is a 3D nano object printed by the Vienna University of Technology's recently announced 3D printer.

World's Most Sensitive Nanomechanical Sensor Can Detect the Mass of One Proton (April 1, 2012): Researchers at ICN's Quantum NanoElectronics Group have fabricated and tested the world's most sensitive nanomechanical sensor.

April Fools: Gmail Launches Gmail Tap (April 1, 2012): This is one of the best April Fools gags we've seen so far.

Peter the Elephant Plays With Tablet (March 29, 2012): Here is a video of Peter the elephant playing with a Samsung tablet, the Galaxy Note.

Self-Oscillating Gel Could Lead to Artificial Skin That Gives Robots Ability to Feel (March 29, 2012): Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have demonstrated that a nonoscillating gel can be resuscitated in a fashion similar to a medical cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).

Electronic Skin Patches Monitor Health Wirelessly (March 28, 2012): People will one day wear electronic skin patches, resembling tattoos, that diagnose health problems or deliver treatments.

Pelamis Wave Power Sea Snake Wins Saltire Prize (March 28, 2012): The Saltire Prize is a 10 million pound (about $15.

Rice University Researchers Develop Transparent Memory Chips (March 28, 2012): Researchers at Rice University's Tour Lab have developed flexible, transparent memory chips, like the one pictured above.

Japanese Scientists Create Robot Hand for Remote Hand Shaking (March 28, 2012): Japanese scientists at Osaka University have created a robot hand so people can shake hands with someone remotely.

New Plastic Bleeds When Cut or Scratched, Heals Like Human Skin (March 27, 2012): Scientists have created a new type of plastic that mimics the human skin's ability to heal.

MIT and Harvard Engineers Create Collapsible Buckliball (March 26, 2012): A group of engineers at MIT and Harvard University were inspired by a collapsible, spherical toy (the Hoberman Sphere) to create the buckliball, a hollow, spherical object made of soft rubber containing no moving parts, designed with 24 carefully spaced dimples.